@lou65broad
Business owner, mum of 5. Love dogs, nature, horses, solitude. Gardening for wildlife and people. Angry, anxious about climate crisis, greed, bigotry, ignorance. Fibromyalgia and ADHD. Live in a house of neurodivergence and dodgy mental health. Norfolk UK.
Cherry plum blossom
Hellebore
Dead hedge
I had a busy week in the garden. I made a dead hedge, pricked out some wallflower, allysum and gypsophilla seedlings and sowed tomatoes, Centauria and verbena bonariensis. #GardensHour
It does get a bit out of hand for me sometimes. Especially with pot noodle obsessed teenagers in the household. 🤣
Two dogs in a garden; a white and tan spaniel laying down and a black lab x springer seated. Both are soaking up the sunshine with their eyes closed and expressions of contentment on their faces.
#OnThisDay 9th March 2021. My two lovely ladies, Maggie and Ivy enjoying the spring sunshine. It’s particularly poignant for me, as my beautiful Ivy died yesterday. She was nearly 14 and had been well, but her heart was failing and I had to let her go. She was surrounded by love her whole life. 💔
Two pigeons on the overhead wire from my bedroom window. Male sidling up to female. Female sidling away. Maybe he’s in her bad books. 🤣 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Bottom half of a woman, from the back. She’s wearing black trousers and a grey sweater with the side label sticking out, showing it is on inside out.
#OnThisDay 8th March 2018. One of my lovely children took this photo of me in a shop queue with my sweater on inside out. Much funnier than pointing it out to me obvs! I can still hear them sniggering.
Thank you! It was quite easy and all finished in a day. 😊
Dead hedge made from 5 pressure treated round fence posts with various branches, twigs and prunings pushed down between the posts and the paling fence. To the left are the branches from a small oak tree and to the right the ends of next door’s laurel (bleuegh!) evergreen hedge. In the foreground is an area of grass and soon to be nettles and wildflowers and beyond the hedge is a meadow with a tree in leaf and winter bare trees along the distant fence line.
I made a dead hedge yesterday using up all the shrub prunings I’ve accumulated over the winter. Great habitat for the wildlife, only £20 for the 5 posts and, best of all, stops my dog from barking at next door’s plastic, lifesize farm animals. 🤣
I love your toilet roll pots. My husband has got into the habit of asking, ‘Is this rubbish, or…?’ before putting just about anything in the bin. 🫢
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Have you tried audiobooks? I used to be an avid reader but can’t focus for long enough now. Audiobooks are my saviour when I have to rest or I’m stuck in a plane or whatever. X
Small boy wearing a costume as an ancient soldier for world book day. He has a helmet made from silver duck tape and a brown cloak.
#OnThisDay 6th March 2015, World Book Day. I can’t remember which character he was, some sort of Roman or Celtic soldier?
They are surviving thanks. I buried the cosmos up to their necks in toilet roll tubes which surprisingly didn’t kill them. I’ve sown some more and a few other things too. I’ll post picks tomorrow if I remember. Yours look good!
I am late to report, sorry. #FirstBirdOfMyDay was Mr & Mrs Blackbird, collecting and carrying nesting material into the hedge. 😍
I love seeing the kids in their World Book Day costumes now mine are all grown up and I don’t have to come up with Gollum, Medusa et al…(she’s now studying English Literature and was always pretty left field in her ideas.🤣)
I think, from what my mum said, they can take a few days to settle down. Typical they’ve told you to call the emergency number on a Sunday when they are bound to have fewer people working. X
How I arrived on Bluesky.
Falling out with Tr•••p is not the same as falling out with the USA. Tr***p is transitory. The ´special relationship’ will recover when that knobhead is gone.
Large flower pot in a galvanised metal container, with miniature purple irises with yellow patches. The display is standing in front of a wooden weatherboard wall, next to a patio door.
#OnThisDay - today! Many photos taken on 4th March over the years of my electricity meter, the WiFi password, cardboard box design (what I do for a living.) Not a single one worth sharing. So here is my bulb lasagne, Iris reticulata JS Dijit first up. 🙂
Haha! Bluetits are clever but….
The Prime Minister is asked about abolishing leasehold.
He answers on management companies and ground rents that makes it really clear Labour have no intention of abolishing leasehold.
5 million people stuck paying service charges because Labour stand with property developers.
Two bluetits playing chase across the garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Thank you Sarah, little steps. 🙂
I have been neglecting my first bird spots over the last few days. I have been in the grip of the black dog and lost my enthusiasm for everything. This morning, #FirstBirdOfMyDay was a gorgeous blackbird belting out his tunes in the eucalyptus tree. 😍
I hope all goes well with your surgery tomorrow. Xx
Vizsla x Lab, golden coloured, asleep with his head wedged in a small gap in a car. It has pushed his loose skin into impressive folds and wrinkles.
Dust always comes back. I like being short as I can’t see the dust on top of the fridge etc.
And she has 4(?) dogs and campaigns against greyhound racing. I thought ‘Islamists’ were dog haters who wanted them banned from public spaces. 🤣
🎉 Congratulations Hannah Spencer MP.
👉🏼 Here's what happens next:
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Yesssss. Get in Gorton and Denton you beauties!
Hooray! 🥳